Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1859 — Sharp Practice. [ARTICLE]

Sharp Practice.

Recently a stranger in Des Moines City, fow.i, had his pocket picked, ( r lost his poekj et-book containing one hundred dollars. He offered fifteen dollars for the recovery of the money. The thief was arrested, and a law- | yvr named Cole employed by the unfortunate gent lonian. ; Cole took possession of the pocket-book ; and money, of which the thief had spent all j but thirty dollars. He gave fifteen dollars to the person who had made the arrest, and kept the rest as fees. The stranger appealed to his lawyer, saying that he was a stranger, entirely out of money, aryl having no m>' its of returning to his home. Cole tool h ihe must go around to the citizens and bi g, and accordingly drew up a subscrip- ! tion paper, heading it with his own name for-s-2 50, and charging the gentleman; that amount for drawing up the papers ocs”T‘iere is a negro in Pb.iJsdtflpb' is distinguished fir the size •*« who They measure twelve inchc% t ‘ f:is feet. n t fotj jth.

The Rev. J. H. McCullough will preach at the Grant School-house next Sunday, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon. young f'riend, Master James, (we have forgo'ten his first name) will please accept our thanks for a mess of green corn. (gyA meeting for the purpose of organizing a cavalry company, wifi be heid at the Court House next Saturday afternoon, at three o’clock. OJ*\Ve week, in a part of our edition, through mistake, announced Mr. D- I. Jackson as a candidate for Auditor. We hope no one was misled by it. (fJ’A gentleman who has been riding considerably through the county, informed us yesterday that he never saw corn look better in Jasper county than it does now. lion. Ru us Choate, of Massachusetts, died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, last, week. He had proceeded that far on h : s way to Europe, and had to be put ashore on account of failing health. OirMr. Van Nostrand iniorms us that he intends to reinpin here but one week longer so that those who have not secured t eii miniatures had better attend to it iinmudi atelly. His pictures cannot be excelled. 0/7”The young man who was arrested it: this place two we k« ago for passing bogus half dollars, was taken before the United Stated Commissioner at Indianapolis, and held in SI,OOO bail for his appearance at the District Court. (j.jt There will be two County Commissioners to elect next fall, and we have nut yet heard any name connected with these offices. The office of Commissioner is the most important one in the county, and we hope our frien s will cast about in time to select the best mar. in each district to fill these offices. wheat of this county is now all harvested, and the yield has proved unex- j peetedly large, although a few did not cut their wheat at all. What escaped the winter has filled out unusually plump. We hear that Solomon McCurtain, in Barkley township, has a field that will average tortv bushels to the acre.